echo-ranging

echo-ranging
echo-rang·ing (ek″o-rānjґing) in ultrasonography, the determining of the position or depth of a body structure on the basis of the time interval between the moment an ultrasonic pulse is transmitted and the moment its echo is received.

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  • echo sounder — noun a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection …   Useful english dictionary

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